The ART of Driving 3rd Annual charity run/walk to raise awareness for youth traffic safety. A fun, family event with an amazing DJ, great giveaways and food! Strollers and dogs welcome. Help us continue our educational programs and annual college scholarship fund by support this important non profit.
While their brothers, boyfriends, and husbands took up arms, these women went to the nation’s capital with sharpened pencils-and even sharper minds-taking on highly demanding Top Secret work, involving complex math and linguistics. Running early computers and poring over reams of encrypted enemy messages, they worked tirelessly in makeshift buildings in Arlington and Washington, DC, from 1942 to 1945. Through extensive research and interviews conducted with code girls, Mundy hones in on the lives and labors of several exemplary code-breakers while weaving their stories among the larger events of the war and the daily activities of the codebreakers.
Ordered by military officials never to reveal their war work, these women and their accomplishments were all but written out of history until Mundy discovered a cache of recently declassified documents at the archives of the NSA. Mundy brings to life this riveting story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.
This program is free and open to the public. It is part of a monthly series of public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and Marymount University’s Department of History and Politics. For more information, please visit www.arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org, Email: [email protected] or call: 703-892-4204
DRIVING DIRECTIONS and FREE PARKING: Attendees should enter the Marymount University campus at the library gate on N. 26th Street. Then turn left and park in the garage at the bottom of the incline. Handicapped parking is available at this 26th Street entrance immediately upon entry at the library. For complete directions to the Main Campus of Marymount University (2807 N. Glebe Road) go to http://www.marymount.edu/Home/Contact-us/Locate-us
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: A free Marymount Shuttle bus is available from the Ballston-MU Metro Station (Orange and Silver lines). The University is also accessible via Metro bus routes 23A and 23T; exit at the N. Glebe Road and Old Dominion Drive stop.
This is the 3rd annual fundraising event for the Wings for Val Foundation, a non-profit organization created in memory of MD native and Navy jet pilot, LT Valerie Cappelaere Delaney, who perished in a training accident in 2013. The Foundation provides scholarships to young women pursuing careers in aviation and inspires the next generation of female leaders to spread their wings and let their dreams take flight! The program will highlight stories of women pilots of past, present and future, as we feature a presentation about the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) of WWII, share updates on our scholarship program, and pin new wings to our growing Wings for Val collection. After the presentation, Mission BBQ will be catering a reception in the exhibit hall, where you can browse the museum exhibits and enter to win raffle prizes to support the Foundation.
The Arlington Chorale,now in its 52nd season, will present its Fall concert of an lovely assortment of music from Mozart, Whitacre, Foster and others.
Our 40th Anniversary! Congregations and community groups gather on October 28th for this 5K/10K event to support Arlington Food Assistance Center and help end hunger worldwide through Church World Service. To start or join a team, go to www.crophungerwalk.org/arlingtonva. The event is free, but we ask our Walkers and Runners to find donors to sponsor them. NOVA Friends of Refugees joins us this year to raise awareness of the plight of refugees. I-Spy PASSPORT game for kids (and adults too). Over it’s 40-year history, the event has raised more than $1 million to fight hunger. Sign-in starts: 8am. Walk begins: 9am. Rain or shine.
You’re invited to our Beauty Bar Pregame on Friday, October 20 at Ten at Clarendon! Join us for free signature cocktails in the Living Room before you hit the town. With Sephora on eye and lip makeovers, Cherry Blow Dry Bar with a braid up-do bar, and Origins Thai Spa with chair massages, you are sure to feel pampered and beautiful.
We’ll also be offering tours and event-only leasing specials if you’re interested. This is an open free event, just don’t forget to reserve your tickets via the link below!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beauty-bar-pregame-tickets-38773504596
Navigating a Capital Improvement project for your business or facility can be an overwhelming process. Renovations and Building Upgrades require many moving parts that can provide a struggle for anyone that doesn’t manage these types of projects on a regular basis. The Arlington Chamber’s Sustainability Committee has brought together a panel that will help local businesses better understand how to tackle a Capital Improvement from identification to implementation. The panelists will address common issues and pitfalls from the perspective of architecture and design, financing and funding, and facility use perspectives. Cost – $25 chamber members, $35 prospective members.
Project Knitwell and One More Page Books are pleased to host author Ann Hood for a conversation about the comfort of knitting, reading, writing, and more.
Ann Hood is the author of The Knitting Circle, Knitting Yarns, Knitting Pearls, and many other fiction and non-fiction titles. She has written extensively about the comfort and inspiration that both knitting and books can provide. In Comfort, a Journey through Grief, a memoir about the sudden death of her five year old daughter Grace, Hood writes: “Knitting saved my life.” She will read from her new release, Morningstar, and be available for a book signing.
The event will be held at 2200 N. Westmoreland St., #101 , Arlington, VA – in the Westlee, one floor up from One More Page.
Free and open to the public! Knitting during the event encouraged!
BalletNova’s full length Nutcracker debuted in 2004 and has performed in front of sold out audiences every Holiday Season since. In 2013, BalletNova celebrated its 10th Anniversary of the full-length ballet as choreographed by Artistic Director Nancie Woods and Executive Director Caroline Frankil Warren.
Each year, BalletNova brings the magic of the Nutcracker to the Northern Virginia Community by offering a variety of ways to experience the celebrated tradition. For a very special Holiday treat, BalletNova Center for Dance hosts a Nutcracker Tea with the Sugar Plum Fairy at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City.
BalletNova’s full length Nutcracker debuted in 2004 and has performed in front of sold out audiences every Holiday Season since. In 2013, BalletNova celebrated its 10th Anniversary of the full-length ballet as choreographed by Artistic Director Nancie Woods and Executive Director Caroline Frankil Warren.
Each year, BalletNova brings the magic of the Nutcracker to the Northern Virginia Community by offering a variety of ways to experience the celebrated tradition. For a very special Holiday treat, BalletNova Center for Dance hosts a Nutcracker Tea with the Sugar Plum Fairy at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City.
This session is open to interested parents, prospective students, educational advocates, related service providers and members of the community who want to learn more about The Sycamore School. Current students and staff will be leading three consecutive 30-minute “pop up” classrooms and current parents and staff will be available to answer questions.
The Sycamore School and Arlington Magazine are hosting a screening and discussion regarding tweens / teens and different types of technology, including navigating social media, video games and the internet. SCREENAGERS probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director’s own, and depicts messy struggles, over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Through surprising insights from authors and brain scientists solutions emerge on how we can empower kids to best navigate the digital world.
Make your next presentation a hit!
Learn how to create slides with text and pictures, as well as other special techniques.
Prerequisites: Basic PC skills.
Attendance at this event is first come, first served. RSVP to receive an event reminder.
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Learn to create, edit, modify, save, and print text documents.
Prerequisites: Basic PC skills.
Attendance at this event is first come, first served.
RSVP to receive an event reminder: https://arlingtonva.libcal.com/aevent.php?c=6828&m=edit&event_id=3495204&gid=0
Peace conference for Northern Virginia faith communities and individuals: seeking an understanding and peaceful solutions to the wars in the Middle East. Speakers: Eli McCarthy, Justice and Peace Studies, Georgetown University; and Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies. Action planning for peace initiatives follows the speakers.
Free.
Location: Trinity Episcopal Church, 2217 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA 22204
Time: 9 AM till Noon; Saturday, Oct. 28.
Sponsors: Nova Catholic Community and the Pax Christi Metro DC Chapter.
